The GOP’s Glaring SOTU Hypocrisies

"...Take just one example—when McMorris Rodgers insisted, “Republicans believe health care choices should be yours, not the government’s.” Planned Parenthood quickly pointed out that just five hours before McMorris Rodgers spoke those words, House Republicans passed a set of sweeping bills that would significantly reduce the number of private health insurance plans that cover abortion. That, in other words, is Republicans using government to interfere in the private marketplace and control the decisions that women about their own bodies..."

The 19th-Century British politician Benjamin Disraeli once said, "A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy." This was obviously a prescien... Read more